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Burning Papers May Mean British-Chinese Break US Plane Losses Set

LONDON (AP/AFNB) BLACK SMOKE AND charred paper have billowed from chimneys at Red China's legation in London. It stirred speculation that SAIGON (AP/AFNB) NEWS FROM VIETNAM has centered on the in- documents were beingdestroyed, testified U.S.air campaign against enemy supply ines in North the usual preliminary to a Vietnam. rupture in diplomatic rela- U.S. B-52 bombers also made four raids in South-Vietnam, tions. hitting Communist.targets from east of Saigon, through the But there has been no word Central Highlandsand.into of an imminent break in rela- -Russia northern South Vietnam. tons between Britain and Red The United States command China. Present Nuclearr reported isolatedsharp ground Relations between London and fighting, but said action in Peking have been badly frayed, GENEVA (APAFNB) THE UNITED general remainslight. since the burning of the Bri- STATES and the Soviet Union The destruction of 12 U.S. tish legation building in Pe- have jointly presented the jets over North Vietnam in Ag on Tuesday andmanhandling draft of a treaty to-halt the three days. of heavy air raids British diplomats by Chinese spread of nuclear weapons- Indicates American planelosses mobs. It was submitted to tvre 17- may reach a record high this Britain has appeared deter- nation disarmament conference week mined to avoid a diplomatic in Geneva. The Communists downed six break if at all possible. In Washington President" planes on Monday and six more Smoke was also seen rising Johnson issued a statement were destroyed Wednesday. from the chimney of the London saying the agreement isa step Of the 21 U.S.fliers manning residence of the Chinese dip- toward preventing "a bad situ- the lost planes, three were lomat in charge, Shen Ping. action from becoming worse." rescuedthe others were listed But whenMesageFro asked about the Mr. Johnsonoinpesntdathe called for fur- as missing or captured. fires, a Chinese official re- their efforts to gain" inter- The North Vietnamese downed fused to answer what he called national agreement on the 15 U.S. planes in one week "unreasonable question." treaty. last August. The Red Chinese are also The meets in Announced American plane causing trouble in the Br tish New York for its session this losses over North Vietnam from colony ofHong Kong. September. all causes now stands at 59. Fierce fighting in South Mr. Johnsonacalled for fur- Vietnam's northern regiontlast week sent American casualties Mhe for the war past the 9, mark, military spokesmeoein GITMO--The.1967-68 school year. is. close at.hand__andstudents Saigon said yesterday. will be returning to school very soon. They said 108 U.S. service- ,Everyone should rememberthatwhen the students are on their men died and 883 were wounded a'dway onto theirand from way thetoandfrom bus stoppswhile schoolthey they areattheoftenskylrk, bus S play,stp n2fron48gunduring the week, frorthe and even dart into streets., especial ly the. younger ones. Of previous week. course, they should notdo th es e .thinesbut tghe fact .remains The nethe that they do, and we must al.stalya.agert,_especiall y while American toll in the war to driving during the school rush-hours. . ChilHdre.are.our most -12,605 deod,77,5l3 wounded and precious possession and it behooves each of us to do every- 708 missing in action, a total Snthing vndrpossible tonosres protectthem seilyteyugroe. Cv Oof 90,826 casualties. While we as parents maintain thison vigilance, certain1 the Another1 493 Communist were children are expectedto extend full co-operation. (Cont yd2) reported klled last(Cont'd 2) Page 2 Gitmo Gazette Friday, August 25, 1967

ComNavBase RADM E.R. Crawford Public Affairs Officer LT Paul E. Lamey Editorial Advisor JOC William A. Liedtke Editor P01 F. Rogers Layout P02 V. L. Griffeth News P03 C. Maddocks Sports The GI2O GAZETTE is published according to the rules and regulations for ship and station newspapers as out- lined in NAVEXDS P-35 and under the direction of the Naval Base Public Affairs Officer. It is printed four days a week at government expense on government equi- Mrs. BerquTst (Tett) and Mrs. Lawson snap on ment. The opinions or statements in news itmes that the shoulder boards of Ensign Chappell as appear herein are not to be construed as official or as the Commanding Officer of the Naval Hospital, reflecting the views of ComNavBase or the Navy Dept. . Captain Lawson looks on. Ads and notices will be accepted between the hours of GITMO.(By 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. MON thru FRI only and will be publish- J02 M. Greenman) FROM THE VERY ed in either Monday's, Tuesday's or Thursday's GAZETTE. beginning yesterday was a special day for No ads or notices--except command notices--will be pub- Wendell Chappell of the Naval Hospital. lished more than once a week nor will they be run in It was a day he had awaited for a long time. Friday's paper. He awoke yesterday morning as a Hospitali Corpsman First Class who was goint to receive a commendation from COMNAVBASE his commanding officer as MESSAGE(Cont'd from 1)They should staff member of the month. be instructed that upon boarding the buses, Last night he went proper to sleep as an ensign in bus conduct.involves being courtious to the Medical Service the drivers and Corps. maintaining order. About a year ago an There were very application for a com- few incidents during the mission was submitted. This was 1966-67 school year involving followed by our. school interviews and a highly competive offic children and these for the most part were selection board. minor. W No doubt this fine record is due to Ens. Chappell is married the to the former efforts of all concerned. However, I feel Margaret Sweat of Wartburg, Tenn. that with the help of all Base personnel the He received his commission record can under the In-ser- be improved. vice Procurment Program of To all students, the Medical Service ['wish each of you the very Corps, which applies specifically to Hospital best in the coming academic year. Let's all Corpsmen and Dental Technicians. strive to make it a safe year. Effective September Ist, new and very strict E. R. CRAWFORD rules will be in effect concerning the cashing RADM, USN of personal check at the Navy Exchange and Commissary Store. VIETNAMESE CASUALTIES (Cont'd from 1) week The only checks that will be running the accepted fo combined North Vietnamese and VieL cashing are your own personal checks issued Cong death toll to for the war to about 221,500. you by your bank. No counter checks or Figures showed about 457,000 American troops scratched checks will Oe accepted. This id Vietnam, change about 3,000 more than the previous has been brought about by the Federal Reserve week. Banking System which will not accept checks Communist strength was estimated at 297,000. unless they have bank accounting-numbers Also invo pre- ved were 57,000 other 'rallied printed on the check with magneticink. This troops, down about 1,000 from the previous change is effective world wide. week. The local bank will be able to assist per- sons who have run out of blank checks.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

Team Won Lost Pct. GB Chicago 69 54 .561 'HE Boston 70 55 .560 69 55 .556 Detroit 69 57 .548 1-- California 64 62 .508 6 Washington 60 66 .476 10 Cleveland 60 67 .472 11 Baltimore 57 68 .456 13 New York 55 70 .440 15 Kansas City 53 72 .424 17

Today's Games

Detroit Hiller (2-0) at Kansas City Dobson (8-7) or Pierce (2-1), night Boston Stange (8-8) and Lonborg (16-6) at Chicago Pelers (14-6) and -- 2, twi-night Minnesota Chance (16-9) and Grant at Cleve- land Williams (3-2) and Hargan (13-10), 2, twi-night New York Stottlemyre (12-10) and Verbanic * Rouadup (3-2) at Washington Bertaina (3-3) and Moore (7-10), 2, twi-night by Chet Maddocks California McGlothlin (11-5) and Simmons (1-1) at Baltimore Phoebus (11-8) and Bunker The pennant race got even tighter with Chi- (3-5), 2, twi-night cago, Boston and Minnesota moving within one half game of each other for first place. . Charlie Smith smashed a pair of two-run ho- ners and Bill Monbouquette pitched a five-- Team Won Lost Pct. GB ter in leading the to a 5-0 St. Louis 78 47 .624 the *tory over Chicago yesterday, reducing Cincinnati 67 59 .532 11 rte Sox's American League lead to one per- Chicago 68 61 12 centage point. .527 San Francisco 65 60 .520 13 Meanwhile Boston's newly acquired Elston Ho- Atlanta 63 59 ward belted a three-run homer in the seventh .516 13 Philadelphia 63 59 inning, his first in a Boston uniform, to give .516 13 Pittsburgh 61 64 the Sox a 7-5 victory over the Washington Sen- .488 17 Los Angeles 57 66 ators. The win tightened their hold on second .463 20 Houston 53 74 26 and moved them within one percentage point of .417 New York 49 75 first. .395 28 Jerry Adair and Jim Landis also hit homersto Today's Games help the Boston cause, while Dave Morehead won dsthird game of the year against two defeats Chicago Jenkins (16-10) at New York Frisella WElsewhere Minnesota beat Detroit to move up (1-1), night game to within one half game of Chicago. Pittsburgh Blasy (4-5) at Philadelphia Short Harmon Killebrew hit his 34th homer to help (5-7), night with the cause as the Twins won it 4-2. St. Louis Jackson (7-4) and Jaster (7-6) at The only other American League game was at Los Angeles Singer (8-4) and Brewer (5-3) 2, Cleveland where Chuck Hinton's fourth twi-night helped the Cleveland Indians past the Califor- Atlanta Niekro (8-7) at San Francisco Mari- nia Angels 2-1. chal (14-9), night In the National League, run scoring .singles by Bob Tolan and windting Here's the latest on the Kansas City situa- in the ninth inning broke up a scoreless duel tion--player representative Jack Aker wants between Hughes and Gaylord Perry as St. Louis Baseball Commissioner William Eckert to hold beat the Giants 2-0 to continue their domin- a formal hearing on the grievances with A's ence of the National League. owner-Charles Finley. Marvin Miller, the Exe- Elsewhere Ron Brent scored the winning run cutive Director of the Major League Players in the tenth to give Houston a 5-4 victory o- Association, was notified of the request. A- ver the Braves. ker's request came after a meeting of Kansas At Los Angeles the Dodgers scored three runs City players before the Oriole game Wednesday in the ninth to give Ron Perranoski the win in night. relief while Billy McCool picked up the loss Finley suspended pitcher Lew Krausse for in relief for the Reds 4-3. five days.fired Al Dark.gave first The only other game Pittsburgh at Philadel- baseman Ken Harrelson his unconditional re- a was postponed because of rain. lease.and fined Aker 250 dollars. Page 8 Gitmo Gazette Friday, August 25, 1967

Club movie schedule WASHINGTON (AP/AFNB) THE HOUSE HAS cut s funds from the Foreign Aid Bill and other v ing could COMO Club reduce the bill even lower than the Senate version. August 26 Dancing on the patio-The Group As voting opened on August 27 Tammy andthe Millionaire-Debbie a series of amendments the House slashed $150 million Watson and Frank McGrath from the deve- lopment loan section. August 28 Main Bar open August 29 Banning-Robert Wagner WASHINGTON August 30 Johnny Yuma-Mark Damon (AP/AFNB) THE SENATE HAS confi ed Townsend Hoopes as August 31 Our ManFlint-James Coburn Under-secretary of tV Air Force. Sept. 1 Deadlier thanthe Male-Elke Sommer Before the voice vote, Democratic Senator Harry Byrd Jr., of CPO Club Virginia, again spoke out against August 26 Black Widow-Gene Tierney the views of some high civilian govern- ment officials on the August 27 Six Bridges to Cross-Tony Curtis . It was on Byrd's request August 28 Deadlier thanthe Male-Elke Sommer that a vote on Hoopes' nomination was August 30 Bottom of the Bottle-Van Johnson delayed a week. Sept. 1 Tammy and the Millionaire-Debbie Watson and Frank McGrath broadcasts for the month of September are being scheduled on weekly basis to better cover the pennare races. The schedule for the first week of Septembei live on 1340 is at follows: Detroit vs Minnesota at 8:55 p.m. Saturday September 2nd Chicago vs Boston at 1:55 p.m. Saturday, I would like to know why the Navy Exchange September 2nd Laundry cannot (or will not) put laundered Detroit vs Minnesota at 2:10 p.m. Sunday shirts and trousers on hangers. It does not September 3rd seem to make very much sense to wash, starch Pittsburgh vs St. Louis at 2.10 p.m. Monday and press a shirt and then fold it into a very September 4th small bundle, thereby making it necessary for .Boston vs Washington at 8:00 p.m. Wednesd the customer to presg the shirt again to make September 6th it presentable. California vs Chicago at 8:55 p.m. Thursday, I don't think that it is tQo much to expect September 7th that uniforms returned from the laundry should St. Louis vs New York at 1:15 p.m. Thursday, be ready to be worn without further work by September 7th the customer. I would not bbject to paying a few cents extra for this additional service, but Mexico and Roseland of Chicago scored 1-0 I have been told (at the laundry) that victories in the Little this is not possible League World Series at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, William A. Wednesday. Mexico Heidecker edged Northridge, California, 1-0, CommTech (W-1) on a run USN the last inning.and Roseland beat Rot Spain,; 1-0, on a no-hitter by Bob Stratta. The following reply was received from CDR H.R. Smith, Navy Exchange Officer, U.S. Naval And in Chcago, Finley said he had not re- Station. ceived an The fer for his team. Joe Buzas, who Navy Exchange _aundry does not have the owns three major league teams, required space in the said he offered pick-up section to re- Finley seven-million dollars for the turn laundered shirts on hangers. The team. in- Finley declared the creased volume of dry cleaning club is not for sale now has taken up or "in the far distant future." all garment hanging space. The Navy Exchange is however attempting to solve this very real problem. The America's Cup may have an Intrepit de- fender next month. The yacht Intrepid scored *WATER STATUS REPORT AS OF MIDNIGHT AUGUST 24* its ,ninth straight win in the Cup finals off Newport, 3Rhode Island, Tuesday by outclassing *PRODUCED 2.181 MILLION GALLONS* Columbia. The New York yacht Club selects the *CONSUMED 1.848 MILLION GALLONS* US defender against Australia's Dame Pattie by September fifth. It looks like *IN STORAGE 13.081 MILLION GALLONS* Intrepid all the way. In Tuesday's other race, Constella- *TARGET 14.700 MILLION GALLONS* tion defeated American Eagle. *********************** *********************** S11